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"High risk, high reward: UB football's new head coach Leipold shows promise"

Dec. 2, 2014

Art by Amber Sliter UB?s new head football coach won?t be leaving his current team behind quite yet ? Lance Leipold?s Wisconsin-Whitewater Warhawks are on a 27-game winning streak in the midst of Division-III playoffs. ?Division-III? might raise some eyebrows ? UB is a Division-I school and staunchly proud of it ? but Leipold isn?t just any D-III coach. He was the fastest college football coach to reach 100 wins at any level, and in his eight seasons in Wisconsin coached his team to an impressive 106-6 record. Considering UB would be thrilled with just breaking .500 ? much less earning the 12-0 record held by Leipold?s Warhawks this year ? this is an exciting hire. It?s undoubtedly a bold move by Athletic Director Danny White, and one that strays from his tendency to bring in big-name coaches like basketball coach Bobby Hurley.

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White goes a different direction for next football coach

By OWEN O'BRIEN | Dec. 2, 2014

Spectrum File Photo At 6 p.m. Sunday, I received one of the worst messages you want to get while in standstill traffic on Route 17 heading back to UB from Long Island ? Athletic Director Danny White is set to announce its 25th head football coach Monday at 1 p.m. I immediately went to my phone, unable to get any official word on who the coach may be except that he was ?successful? with ?head coaching experience.? But as reports starting coming out, little by little (as I helplessly refreshed Twitter, conducted Google searches and tried my best to get information from only a smart phone in very spotty coverage) and the rumor was Lance Leipold, a D-III football coach, my first thought was: How far has this program fallen in less than two years? Yes, Buffalo isn?t a hotspot for football.

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"New year, new mindset"

By GABRIELA JULIA | Dec. 2, 2014

Spectrum File Photo I downloaded the Yik Yak app on my phone in October. At first, I thought it was entertaining and a good way to waste time before class started.

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My Call of Duty conundrum

By JORDAN OSCAR | Nov. 23, 2014

Damnit, I bought Call of Duty again. I said I wouldn?t. I said the same thing last year, the year before that and the year before that. Luckily, I bought was a used copy that I could return to GameStop within seven days, not a new copy I would trade in for half its initial value, or less, after I got bored in a few months. Each year I say the same eight words: ?I?m not going to get Call of Duty.? And every year, I go back on my word. I?ve been saying that since Modern Warfare 2, a game that solidified the series? stagnancy for me. Stagnancy is a game franchise?s worst enemy.

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Buffalo matters more than the Bills

Nov. 23, 2014

As dozens of people sat stranded, trapped and freezing in their cars all over Buffalo, buried under masses of snow and contemplating their odds of survival, the Buffalo Bills cried out for help. Still in the midst of the storm Bills officials reached out across Twitter and the media to plea for help from Buffalo?s residents. The stadium, filled with about 220,000 tons of snow, needed to be dug out. Because even as the National Guard rolled into Buffalo, even as residents sat trapped in their homes and their cars, as roofs collapsed and food ran out ? the Bills worried about their 1 o?clock game. More problematically, they expected Buffalo to care, too. It?s understandable the Doug Marrone and company would look past the storm and focus on football.

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A black day for workers

By EMMA JANICKI | Nov. 18, 2014

Spectrum File Photo The only time I went Black Friday shopping without having to work at a retail job, I was in the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania with my mom.

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Thanksgiving is for food and family ' not shopping

By Editorial Board | Nov. 18, 2014

Art by Amber Sliter While families carve up their turkey and break out the stuffing at Thanksgiving dinner, haggard employees will be opening their shop doors ? all because retailers don?t know when enough is enough. In recent years, the biggest shopping day of the year has slowly begun to test the bounds of ?Friday,? with shops opening earlier and some companies, like Walmart turning the day into a five-day period called ?the New Black Friday.? This is the beginning of a dangerous trend, as a day that traditionally serves as both a celebration of holiday shopping and a warning about the overpowering influence of consumerism extends its grasp. It?s a trend that benefits nobody ? no individual, that is.

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"Evaluations are improved, response rate? ' that's up to the students"

By Editorial Board | Nov. 18, 2014

The now-defunct course evaluation system cost UB over $50,000 ? money that did little to encourage students to fill out the surveys, and failed to provide a university-wide method for course feedback. Now, with a new assessment program in place, UB is still shelling out $49,754, but for a system that shows much more promise. In contrast to the earlier system, which included six separate evaluations for different schools and programs, the new and improved evaluations are uniform, and will be used university-wide. Even more importantly, the upgraded evaluations can now be tailored to each course, allowing professors to get more specific feedback. That this change was not implemented earlier is surprising. UB offers a vast array of courses, which range enormously in terms of subject matter and teaching style.

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The red cup countdown

By SHARON KAHN | Nov. 18, 2014

Spectrum File Photo There?s nothing that better signifies the beginning of the holiday season than a red cup. No, I?m not talking about red solo cups ? I?m talking about Starbucks? holiday cups.

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Hip-Hop isn't dead; it's just evolving

By JAMES BATTLE | Nov. 16, 2014

Spectrum File Photo There isn?t a genre of music I love more than hip-hop. It?s the reason I chose to write for the Arts Desk at The Spectrum and it makes up most of what my cohost, Cletus Emokpae, and I discuss on our WRUB radio show ?In the Booth.? It?s almost always blasting through my headphones and I can discuss it with my friends and peers for hours.

Migos’ lack of their signature style that has made them so successful is among the many disappointments in their newest mixtape.
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All that glitters isn't gold

By JAMES BATTLE | Nov. 16, 2014

Migos? lack of their signature style that has made them so successful is among the many disappointments in their newest mixtape. Album: Rich Ni**a Timeline Artist: Migos Label: Atlantic Records Release Date: Nov.

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